The previously given population
estimates tell us that at 1 percent of central Mexico as a whole, the upper
class would number 130,000 to 252,000 members, at 2 percent 260,000 to 504,000,
and at 10% 1.3 to 2.52 million. As roughly half the population of central
Mexico is estimated to have fallen within the Aztec empire, the size of the
upper class that could have been supported ranges from a low of 65,000 to a
high of 1.26 million people. (Ross Hassig, Polygamy and the Rise and Demise
of the Aztec Empire [Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016], 63)